Yesterday the Supreme Court issued its long awaited decision on Arizonaâs immigration lawâSB 1070. The court set aside three provisions of the law that would have pre-empted federal law. One made it a state crime for illegal immigrants to seek work or hold a jobâ¦.another would have required all immigrants to always carry papers or documents proving they are here legallyâ¦. And a third provision struck down authorized police to arrest without warrant anyone they believe committed a depo...

Tuesday the City of Tampa announced its official parade route and "public viewing area" for August's Republican National Convention, and activists like Becky Rubright are upset.

The official parade route begins at the intersection of N Brush Street and E Washington Street. Protesters can march about four blocks down Washington, then turn left on Morgan Street for a block before another left on E Whiting Street. After three more blocks, marchers will turn left on Nebraska Avenue for the fin...

On todayâs Sustainable Living program we spent the hour talking about home solar electric systems. Our first guest, Paul Spencer, is the founder of The Clean Energy Collective located in Colorado. Paulâs business is setting up community solar power and other forms of renewable energy systems (wind, hydro, etc) that you can buy into for the long term, off-setting part or all of your power consumption to renewable. You can visit his website to find out m...

Good afternoon, welcome to The last Call on WMNF. Weâll spend the next hour with one of Floridaâs funniest and most cynical newspaper columnists. He loads up every column with cultural references from the last 75 yearsâsometimes you need to have taken a course in American popular culture just to keep upâ¦.Daniel Ruth has worked for newspapers in for more than 25 years. He has been a reporter, a TV critic, a film critic. For years he ...

West Central Florida remains under a Tropical Storm Warning and Tornado Watch as Tropical Storm Debby hovers in the Gulf of Mexico. It continues to produce bands of strong storms like the ones that spawned tornadoes and flooding yesterday in the Tampa Bay region. This morning Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn said residents should still be careful of flooded roads.

State authorities say that approximately 35,000 customers are without power due to Tropical Storm Debby. There were other tornado repor...

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. Iâm Rob Lorei. Coming up today â Tropical Storm Debbieâ has given us a glimpse of what will happen as sea levels riseâ¦Weâll talk about climate change and how it will affect Florida in a moment. Later weâll take your phone callsâ¦.But first three listener comments about last weekâs interview with George Lakoff and about the conservative caller who kicked off last Fridayâs program. Hereâs what three listeners had to sayâ¦
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Couples in Tampa who want some of the rights of married couples, but either donât want to, or are legally forbidden from, getting married, can now sign up as domestic partners. At 9 a.m. Monday the city opened its domestic partnership registry and about a dozen couples were lined up to sign the papers on the first day. Justin Grant sat in a hallway with his partner Phil Wright.

Shortly after 9 a.m. in the Office of the City Clerk in City Hall Grant and Wright filled out forms that were n...

President Barack Obama was met in Tampa on Friday by an excited crowd of supporters at the Dale Mabry campus of Hillsborough Community College. Almost 3,000 people showed up to applaud the President for policies like the Affordable Care Act and the Dream Act. During his stop, Obama told the crowd that voters shouldnât support a candidate who chose to send jobs overseas. He cited a report in the Washington Post.

âThat the companies his firm owned were pioneers in the outsourcing of ...

Good afternoon and welcome to Last Call. Iâm Lisa Marzilli, joined by our engineer Alvaro Montealegre. Today weâre going to meet one of candidates vying to unseat incumbent US Senator Bill Nelson. If you read the papers youâre likely to think there are only 4 candidates in the running, 3 Republicans and Nelson - and if you listen to Connie Mack IV, only two. The reality is that there are 13 qualified candidates currently in the...

Floridaâs springs, rivers and other waterways are threatened by pollution and low water flow. On Saturday former Governor Bob Graham will be at Silver River State Park near Ocala to warn the public about this statewide problem.

The Speak Up for Silver Springs and Floridaâs Waters event will feature speeches from Florida Conservation Coalition leaders, nature exhibits, outdoor activities and live music. Robert Knight, director of the Florida Springs Institute, says public awareness is c...

Three hundred homes in Tampaâs Sulphur Springs neighborhood will be getting an energy makeover on their homes this month. The Tampa Electric Company started the neighborhood weatherization program for low-income homes Tuesday in Tampa.

Improvements to homes include things like weather stripping around doors to keep cold air in and hot air out during the energy-draining summer months. A team of contractors will also be cleaning appliances and replacing old light bulbs with more efficien...

Rebecca Spector with Center For Food safety talks about efforts by Monsanto to get approval of a genetically modified corn that would be able to tolerate 2,4D-an agent in Agent Orange. The USDA, who has the authority to approve Monsanto's new seed, will be giving a decision soon . The EPA is taking opinions whether 2,4 D can safely be used in this way. Public comment is open until June 22-but Rachel said that opinions are still open and welcome. Since the introduction of Monsanto's Roun...

Rachel Harris of the Women's Environmental Organization (WEDO) reports from Rio+20 conference in Brazil. She expressed her concerns with some of the issues in the working documents (arrived at in secret in closed meetings). She was particularly upset with the lack of mention of women 's reproductive rights being necessary for sustainability and the lack of indigenous concerns again over sustainability. Rachel felt the concerns and the solutions for the environment were being "corporately" d...